Bottle-crate.



A. L. 'FOREMAN BOTTLE CRATE. APPLICATION FILED ocr. 1, 191a.

Patented Jan. 7,1919.

amen to: AMos L. FOREMAN AMOS L. FOREIMAN, YORK, PENNSYLVANIA.

BOTTLE-CRATE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. '1, 1919.

Original application filedNovember 13, 1916, Serial No. 131,121. Divided and this application filed October 7, 1918. Serial No. 257,260.

To all whomit may concern:

Be it known that I, AMos L. FoRnMAN, 'a citizen of the United States, residing in York. Pennsylvania, Improvements in Bottle-Crates, (the same being a division of my application, Serial No. 131,121, filed November 13, 1916,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of certain improvements in the bottle crate forming the subjcct of my previous Letters Patent No. 1,050,823, dated January 21, 1913, the object of my present invention being to securely connect the ends of the transverse bottleseparating strips of the crate to the sides of the crate without the use of nails.

This object I attain in the manner hereinafter set forth, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which'- Figure 1 is a transverse vertical section of a bottle crate constructed in accordance with my present invention;

Fig. 2 is a vertical section, on a larger scale than Fig. 1, of part of one of the sides of the crate and of the connection between the same and the end of one of the transverse strips of the bottle separator, and

Fig. ,3 is a perspective view, on a still larger scale, of one of the elements of said connection.

The frame of the crate is of rectangular form, the ends 1 having bottom str1ps 2 and the sides being composed of upper and lower strips 3 and 4. The bottom of the crate consists of a wire'5 carried back and forth between the bottom end strips 2 and let into recesses in the tops of said strips, as clearly set forth in my previous Patent have invented certain The ends of the longitudinal separator strips 11 may be secured to the end members 1 of the crate in any available manner, for

instance, in the manner set forth in my -pre- VlOllS application Serial No. 131,121, filed November 13, 1916, my present invention, which is a division of ing reference solely to the means employed for fastening the opposite ends of the transverse separator strips 12 to the opposite sides of the crate.

The end portions of these strips fit between the upper and lower members 3 and 4 of the sides of the crate, and each end is perforated for the reception of the dowel pin 13 which projects both upwardly and downwardly from the strip and is embedded, respectively. in the upper and lower members 3 and 4' of the sides of the crate, these dowels therefore serving not only to firmly secure the end portions of the transverse strips 12 to the sides of the crate but also to prevent separation of'the upper and lower members 3' and 4 of said sides. In order to better attain the latter object the dowels 13 may be notched or-recessed on each side, as shown at 13 in Figs. 2 and 3.

I claim:

The combination of the opposite sides of a bottle crate with a transverse bottle-separating strip having its opposite ends projecting into the opposite sides of the crate and having at each end a dowel pin which projects above and below the strip and is embedded in the corresponding portions of the side of the crate.

In testimony whereof, I have name to this specification.

AMOS L. FOREMAN.

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